From the course: Making User Experience Happen as a Team
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Earning respect
From the course: Making User Experience Happen as a Team
Earning respect
- Development teams respect actions rather than words. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to demonstrate ownership and commitment rather than just peripheral involvement. That can be hard when you're sharing your workload between multiple teams. But for the period of time when you're focused on a specific team, you need to be truly present. Don't just raise usability and design bugs, own them, and see them through to resolution. Don't just flag things as an issue, but help provide a solution, too. That might mean sitting with the developer while they make changes to the code, or it might mean getting in there and creating the updated CSS file. It really doesn't mean just emailing an image of how the interface should look. That's highly open to interpretation and it's extra work, rather than less work, for the development team. If you show that you're willing to take on the work to back up your proposed changes, you're more likely to be able to get designs seen as an…
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